How Literacy Develops/How Literacy Should be Taught

Excellent Satisfactory Developing Needs Improvement

Incorporates Supporting Literature

Uses perceptive and Incorporates support Some incorporation No incorporation
insightful reasoning into most areas that is evident but not in all appears evident
to incorporate the paper covers points of the paper
literature information

10 8 6 4
Integration of Course Materials

Indicates a compre- Indicates understanding Indicates a basic Obvious lack of
hensive understanding of most of the coursematerial understanding of the inclusion of course material
of course material with with limited relationships course material with weak with little or no relation-
clear relationships to to research results and teaching relationships to results ship to results and teaching
research results and teaching . and teaching

10 8 6 4

Implications for Teaching/Learning

Contains implications Contains adequate use of Includes implications and Too few examples to
with strong use of implicatons some examples to some examples but doesn’t provide substance and
examples to support support research findings tie them to the research findings support for the research
research findings findings

10 8 6 4

Clarity of Research Paper

All ideas are clear, co- All ideas are clear and co- Some ideas may be Ideas are unclear and
herent and may contain herent. Most findings are confusing. Explanations difficult to follow; may
consistent freshness of explained and accompanied and examples are digress in a distracting
thought. Findings are ex- by examples and explana- hard to follow or manner. No explanations
plained and supported tion omitted or examples tied to the
with specific examples findings

6 4 2 1

Grammar/Mechanics/APA Style

Contains clear sen- Contains clear sentences Sentences are fairly Sentences may be
tences which vary in with few errors in grammar clear but errors in confusing; frequent,
structure: few or no and mechanics. A few APA grammar and mechanics repeated errors in
errors in grammar and errors and APA may be distracting grammar & mechanics
mechanics. Follows APA and APA

4 3 2 1

Total points for Research Paper: (40 points)

Total points for Group Evaluation: (12points)

Total project points for: (52points)